The Collected Works of Illyiss

[Lord_S_Gray]

It is a strange joy of poetry, for the poet, that the words, with such strong and specific meaning when penned, can mean something different and unique to each reader.  Even at times a reader may find different meaning when at different points in their life.  Many other forms of written work, to have the original intent not conveyed clearly to each reader, is a consternation, perhaps even a failing, yet poetry, most like painting in this way, draws forth meaning through perception.

Thank you all for your praise, and for indulging my prose.

Thank you for sharing! Very true though I once read something like once you publish or tell a story it is no longer your story but the listeners - there is no listening not filtered through their own different perspective hence same words have a thousand meanings drawn half from within the viewer.

Forever alone
Inside this skin suit
Wether crowded room
Or solitude complete
As though a passenger
Traveling through this life
Longing to love
Connections not quite
When so near at hand
I feel light years away
So more like the sun
I send out my light
Burning inside
My heart's furnace bright
Yet never knowing a moon
Unreflected
My light

This one...disconnection almost out of body I think we all get that feeling sometime s - what is this thing in the mirror is it really me? It's rarely how you imagine yourself in your mind's eye...it's just this carrier - luminous beings are we not this crude matter?

[Illyiss]

Inspired by a photo and story of a person who has SCA field legal Black Panther armor that is screen acurate in appearance.

Found among
Anointed knights
And warriors all bold
From times and places old
One man alone
Among the ranks
Does stand apart
With armor sleek
Which calls to mind
A cry so deep and bold
That pride inside
Does surely swell
From battle cry
Rings over field
Heard in period never
Forget us not
Wakanda, forever!

[Darth Silenoz]

Inspired by a photo and story of a person who has SCA field legal Black Panther armor that is screen acurate in appearance.

Found among
Anointed knights
And warriors all bold
From times and places old
One man alone
Among the ranksf
Does stand apart
With armor sleek
Which calls to mind
A cry so deep and bold
That pride inside
Does surely swell
From battle cry
Rings over field
Heard in period never
Forget us not
Wakanda, forever!

That was really, really good Illyiss. Excellent.-1 

[Illyiss]

Timeless beauty,
Eternal grace,
Elemental strength,
Ethereal presence,
Of the fae,
And of the dark,
From the North,
Renown in spades,
Skål to her,
Who deserves all honor.

[Karmack]

Timeless beauty,
Eternal grace,
Elemental strength,
Ethereal presence,
Of the fae,
And of the dark,
From the North,
Renown in spades,
Skål to her,
Who deserves all honor.

An epic ode to one held in high esteem.  I love the Scandinavian imagry and subtle touches of language that evoke Viking halls and wood fire smoke over icy terrain.  :-)

[Darth Silenoz]

An epic ode to one held in high esteem.  I love the Scandinavian imagry and subtle touches of language that evoke Viking halls and wood fire smoke over icy terrain.  :-)

^^^What he said.^^^

[TheDutchman]

Timeless beauty,
Eternal grace,
Elemental strength,
Ethereal presence,
Of the fae,
And of the dark,
From the North,
Renown in spades,
Skål to her,
Who deserves all honor.

Skål indeed!  Shakespeare's soliloquies have nothing on you my friend!

With your permission, I'm going to put that in a card to my wife and take all the credit for it!!*

*_{I am of course just kidding}